We're in Mount Dora. Again today was an easy drive, with only a little craziness at the end when the directions failed us. But we found the hotel anyway.
It's a nice place, very charming. The hotel includes several buildings and ours was built in the 1930s. You can kind of tell by looking at the bathroom. It has that classy 30's tile. Our room does not, alas, have a view of the lake. But it does have net access! For $10 a day, which would be pissing me off enormously if the room weren't free.
We saw a couple of other art car drivers as we checked in: Women Who Rock and the Rat Man. Also known as Bonnie and Robert. I didn't realize before that they're a couple. And we also saw the driver of this car, whose name I unfortunately don't know. She's really cool though. She let me use her cold cream to wash my face in Louisville, on Friday night after we had been out in the heat all day. Because of that I went and bought a pack of Ponds "disposable facial cleansing cloths" for this trip. They're basically Handi-wipes with a gentler cleanser on them. They're really wonderful to have in your bag after a long grubby day.
I guess we'll meet everyone else at 6 tonight, when they're having some kind of party for the art car people. Until then we're free. Right now we're just hanging out in the room and relaxing. I should be out working on decoration repair on my car, but it's pretty hot so I may not get to it until later. (I hear it's a fabulous cool day in Durham, and I'm so bummed that we're missing it!) Rumor has it the party will provide enough "heavy appetizers" to make a light dinner, which might turn out to be enough for us since we had a big lunch at Steak n Shake. Neither of us had ever been there before, and I have to say it was good but a heck of a lot of food. Also the waitress was very accommodating of my lengthy dithering over the menu.
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